All Things Distributed

MARCH 10, 2017

It praises the power of blockchain as a disruptive technology, on par with how "the internet" changed everything. I am always surprised to see that these far-reaching predictions are made, without diving into the technology itself. Blockchain technology first came on the scene in 2008, as a core component of the bitcoin cryptocurrency.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought provoking.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

OneAgent 1.209 will be the last OneAgent version that supports the following technologies. Windows: Windows Server 2008. Added support for Confluent Kafka client library 1.4.0 – 1.5.3. Current support changes. Current OneAgent support changes. OpenTelemetry 0.13.0. Upcoming support changes. Vendor announcement. 7 SP1, 8.1.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The technology enabled changes in business models that made them less susceptible to traditional forces. Technology has also increased worker productivity, which reduces labor intensity, which means less labor volatility when things slow down. I’ve wrestled with this from a few different perspectives. Not created, exposed.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008. Social media was just coming into its own.

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O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The financial collapse of 2008 led to tighter regulation of banks and financial institutions. Cybersecurity itself was considered an esoteric backroom technology problem until we learned of the Equifax breach, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, Log4j vulnerability, and the massive SolarWinds hack. You think AI is scary now?

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

On the other hand, although big tech went from villain to hero in a short period of time because of the crisis, increased dependency on technology will bring renewed scrutiny to big tech. From a certain point of view, a lot of banks were nationalized by governments in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Corporate IT costs will rise.

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Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. Carlota Perez’s 2002 theories summarized in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. The pandemic affects everyone. Unfortunately, many more will not.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

It's an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often [write about]) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., Note that my predictions in this talk may be wrong, but they should be thought-provoking.

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Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It's an important vendor-neutral space to share the latest in technology. USENIX has been a great help to my career and my employers, and I hope it is just as helpful for you. And now, helping bring USENIX conferences to Australia by giving the first keynote: I could not have scripted or expected it. It was a great privilege.

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PDC

APRIL 14, 2019

Over the years, the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputers have reached teraFLOPS (10 12 FLOPS) in 1997 and petaFLOPS (10 15 FLOPS) in 2008, and the next milestone is exaFLOPS (10 18 FLOPS). You might have noticed that there is a turning point in 2008 where the increase in performance of the 500 th machine slowed down slightly.

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Tasktop

MAY 16, 2019

Established in 2008, we bring a comprehensive approach that combines extensive proficiency in all aspects of software development, and practical experience in management. We see Tasktop technology as innovative and extremely relevant to our client base. Tell us about Trinity.

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Testsigma

AUGUST 24, 2021

com also says that in 2008 there were 112 different types of browsers people were using to access the internet. PC: Technology vector created by stories – www.freepik.com. According to browser usage statistics here , there are 4.3 billion internet users today. It’s a fact that every application is different.

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SQL Server According to Bob

JUNE 3, 2016

The new column store engine and query processing technology could increase query performance up to 100X and the new In-memory OLTP engine can process 1.25million batches/sec on a single 4 socket server, which is more than 3X of SQL 2014. “ – Rohan Kumar, Director of SQL Software Engineering.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology. By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. Comments (). I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time. APAC Summer Tour.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A small list of some of the famous open-source technologies. Wikipedia states that in a 2008 report, open-source projects were able to save over USD 60 billion for the customers. What would be better than the technology on which you have been working for personal projects for some time?

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 3, 2022

In a way, technology also created new typeface classifications. Because technology has made it possible to design typefaces easier than ever before, we seem to be reinventing “different types of wheels” that already get the job done. They were all designed for slightly different contexts and technological times. Large preview ).

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KeyCDN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

was defined in RFC 5246 10 years ago, back in August 2008. we hope to see more browsers and users adopt technology for better performance and security all around. therefore, there’s no better time to start adopting this new technology than now. It has been quite some time since TLS underwent a major update. Testing TLS 1.3

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. As discussed here, Elastic Beanstalk targets both application developers by providing a simple set of tools to get started with development quickly and the platform developers by giving control over the underlying technology stack.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

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The Morning Paper

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

To increase capacity, hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are introducing Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology. In 2008, with the emergence of Btrfs, a new implementation was built taking advantage of Btrfs’ transactions, deduplication, checksums, and compression. The first implementation (c.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 5, 2012

Often we think about innovation as doing new things or based on revolutionary new technologies such as DynamoDB, but it is more important to ensure that one can also innovate based on existing paradigms. We now have more time to focus on innovation while being confident that when demand increases we can easily add more capacity.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Recessions in 2001 (when businesses reigned in unrestrained tech spending) and 2008 (when businesses reigned in all spending) tightened belts and increased operational scrutiny. Corporate profitability and cash flows have been strong, especially since the 2008 financial crisis. What does all this mean?

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2013

As the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became glaringly obvious that few bank directors had any detailed understanding of either banking or risk.) Tech people also tend to be more interested in the technology and the act of creating it, rather than the business and it's non-functional responsibilities.

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Tim Kadlec

JULY 31, 2013

So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis. When he first gave the presentation in 2008, he was working at this massive company called Yahoo! That was 2008.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 12, 2011

In the previous post , we took a look at market factors that suggest the technology sector could be on a multi-year bull run, in a bubble, or possibly both. Bull markets and bubbles create volatility of commercial technology. The 1980s and 90s saw a lot of fringe technologies carry on for far longer than was economically justified.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Hire some developers fluent in a legacy technology, make sure you have an objective way of auditing their extraction of the rule base, and identify a cadre of employees who can understand those rules well enough to more comprehensively catalog and contextualize them.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 11, 2010

Technology doesn't work together as seamlessly as we thought it would. Everybody will be fully competent and sufficiently skilled to meet expectations of performance. Asserting that things are fact doesn’t make them so. Of course, we never make it to the long run in IT. People change roles or exit.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 10, 2011

There's been a sea-change in the technology sector, from counter-cyclical to pro-cyclical. Tech, and especially tech services, went counter-cyclical a few months into the last recession (2008). Companies entered the downturn with record levels of cash. With so much uncertainty, most firms didn't bet on expansion.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 21, 2011

Limited tech share offerings to date means limited wealth depletion, a huge benefit given that households are still suffering from excess debt and substantial wealth erosion from 2008 peaks. All told, a tech sector cool down now would be a far less damaging economic event than the dot-com or housing market collapses of recent years.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By way of example, businesses contracted their labor forces (including the ranks of their core knowledge workers) in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Soon after the reductions-in-force, companies invested in technology to lock in productivity gains of that reduced force.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Applications with the potential to yield significant business impact typically involve new processes or technologies. Treasury Panels Lay Out Hedge Fund `Best Practices' Bloomberg.com, 15 April 2008. Mortgage Fallout Exposes Holes in New Bank-Risk Rules The Wall Street Journal, 4 March 2008. 1 Brinsley, John.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Nowadays, there are three built-in tracers that you should know about: - **ftrace**: since 2008, this serves many tracing needs, and has been enhanced recently with hist triggers for custom histograms. And namespaces, used for Linux containers, are also a relevant technology.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 26, 2019

Dustin Dorsey is currently the Managing Database Engineer for LifePoint Health in which he leads a team responsible for managing and engineering solutions in database technologies for 90 hospitals. He is passionate about finding ways to solve problems that plague the everyday DBA and loves sharing this with others.

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